The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature
Year: 2013
Type: other
Abstract: The text encoding initiative (TEI) is an international consortium which is dedicated to maintaining the TEI Guidelines as a recommended standard for textual markup. This chapter examines some of the history and theoretical and methodological assumptions embodied in the text-encoding framework recommended by the TEI. It includes a sampling of some of the history, a few of the issues, and some of the methodological assumptions, for the most part unavoidable, that the TEI makes. The extension and customization of the TEI is listed as one of its original design goals. TEI provides a substantial framework upon which scholars and editors can undertake the study of literature through digital means. It is inevitable that more digital editions will continue to be produced, and that the TEI has a role in assisting these to be accessible and interoperable.
Author: James Cummings
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1483684694